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Woe to her that is filthie and polluted, to the oppressing citie.

She obeyed not the voice: she receiued not correction: she trusted not in the Lord: she drew not neere to her God.

Her princes within her are roaring lyons; her Iudges are euening wolues, they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.

Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests haue polluted the Sanctuarie, they haue done violence to the Law.

The iust Lord is in the middest thereof: he will not doe iniquitie: euery morning doeth hee bring his iudgement to light, he faileth not: but the vniust knoweth no shame.

I haue cut off the nations: their towres are desolate, I made their streetes waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroied, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.

I said, Surely thou wilt feare mee: thou wilt receiue instruction: so their dwelling should not bee cut off, howsoeuer I punished them: but they rose early, & corrupted all their doings.